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TCU Press Autograph Extravaganza set for Friday, Dec. 3




Fort Worth, TX

11/23/2010

TCU Press will hold its 25th annual Autograph Extravaganza from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center, 2820 Stadium Drive. The holiday shopping event is free and open to the public, featuring books by 25 regionally and internationally known authors who attend to meet their readers and sign books. Refreshments will be served and there will be a cash bar.

This year's featured authors are:

•    JUDY ALTER, Cooking My Way through Life with Books and Kids; and Sue Ellen Learns to Dance
•    ALAN BIRKELBACH, Smurglets Are Everywhere; Alan Birkelbach: New and Selected Poems; and Rogue Waves
•    DAVID BUSH AND JIM PARSONS, Hill Country Deco: Modernistic Architecture of Central Texas and Houston Deco
•    HENRY CHAPPELL, The Callings and Blood Kin
•    DEBORAH CROMBIE, Necessary as Blood; Where Memories Lie; A Share in Death; and Dreaming of the Bones
•    JULIET GEORGE, Fort Worth's Arlington Heights
•    LESLIE GORDON, The Homeless Christmas Tree
•    SUSAN HALBOWER, Illustrator of Smurglets Are Everywhere
•    MIKE KEARBY, The Road to a Hanging; Ride the Desperate Trail; Ambush at Mustang Canyon; and A Hundred Miles to Water
•    SUSAN KLINE, Fort Worth Parks
•    ALEX LEMON, Happy; Fancy Beasts; Hallelujah Blackout; and Mosquito
•    LAWANA MAULDIN, Lake Worth
•    MIKE MCDERMOTT, Fort Worth's Fairmount District
•    WYMAN MEINZER AND HENRY CHAPPELL, Under One Fence: The Waggoner Ranch Legacy; Working Dogs; and 6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch
•    LAURIE MOORE, Jury Rigged; Woman Strangled—News at Ten; and Deb on Arrival—Live at Five: A Debutante Detective Mystery
•    KARLA MORTON, Karla K. Morton: New & Selected Poems; Redefining Beauty; and Names We've Never Known
•    J'NELL PATE, Fort Worth Stockyards and America’s Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels
•    MARK PAULDA, Celebrating El Paso
•    JAN REID, Texas Tornado: The Life and Times of Doug Sahm; Comanche Sundown; The Bullet Meant for Me; and The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
•    RICK SELCER, Fort Worth Characters; Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1; Legendary Watering Holes; and Hell’s Half-Acre
•    DJ STOUT, The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert and His Fabulous Alpine Cowboys Baseball Club: An Illustrated History of West Texas' Premier Semi-Pro Baseball Team
•    CARLTON STOWERS, Staubach: The Brightest Star; Texas Football Legends: The Greats of the Game; and Careless Whispers
•    PHIL VINSON, Fort Worth: A Personal View; Ink in the Blood; and It Takes a Worried Man
•    CHLOE WEBB, Legacy of the Sacred Harp

The TCU Press annual Autograph Extravaganza is presented by TCU Barnes & Noble Bookstore, in conjunction with The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Friends of the TCU Library, and Cabot Creamery Cooperative. For more information, call 817-257-5074 or e-mail s.petty@tcu.edu.